Habitat : human settlements in an urban age /

Habitat: Human Settlements in an Urban Age discusses the man-made environment and its physical setting, focusing on the urban slums of the world and rural hinterlands that caused the slums. Each chapter of this book deals with a specific issue, and the study of each issue is concluded with three que...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gunn, Angus M. (Angus Macleod), 1920-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1978.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies.
Temas:
Human ecology.
Cities and towns.
Cities
�Ecologie humaine.
Villes.
human ecology.
cities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Habitat.
Stadtentwicklung
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Habitat:Human Settlements in an Urban Age; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; The Issues of Habitat; CHAPTER ONE. Rural-Urban System; Spaceship Earth; Rural
  • Urban Systems; Canadian Inuit; Kuwait; Israel; Megalopolis and Ecumenopolis; Identify the issues; CHAPTER TWO. Urban Frontier; Why People become Squatters; Trends in Government Approaches; Metropolitan Manila; Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; Nairobi; The American Ghetto; City Origins; Industrial Revolution; The Modern Phase; Microclimates; Identify the Issues; CHAPTER THREE. Rural Stagnation; Water
  • Rural
  • Urban MigrationTanzania; China; Indian Subcontinent; Bangladesh; Identify the issues; CHAPTER FOUR. Bangladesh; Rural Settlement Patterns; Urban Centres; Environmental Conditions; Natural Hazards; Coping with the Urban Immigrants; Identify the Issues; CHAPTER FIVE. Population; Counting People; World Birth and Death Rates; Age-Sex Graphs; Population Control; Singapore; Indonesia; Education; Health; Genetic Engineering; Identify the issues; CHAPTER SIX. Poor and Rich; Board of Chance; North and South America; Africa; Islam; Women; Handicapped; Tackling Poverty; Identify the Issues
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Life SupportMalnutrition; Women and Food; World Grain Consumption; Shelter; Zambia Self-help Housing; Sweden Sites and Services Housing; Singapore Public Housing; Identify the Issues; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Planning for Tomorrow; Britain: New Towns; Netherlands; New Polder Planning; Dodoma; Munich; The Tetrahedronal City; Ecumenopolis; Space Colonies; Identify the Issues; CHAPTER TWELVE. The First Step; Identify The Issues; Some Facts and Figures; Introductory Bibliography; Index

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